Look at other dictionaries:

in the raw — {adj.} or {adv. phr.} 1. In the simplest or most natural way; with no frills. * /Henry enjoyed going into the woods and living life in the raw./ 2. {informal} Without any clothing; naked. * /In the summer the boys slept in the raw./ … Dictionary of American idioms

in the raw — {adj.} or {adv. phr.} 1. In the simplest or most natural way; with no frills. * /Henry enjoyed going into the woods and living life in the raw./ 2. {informal} Without any clothing; naked. * /In the summer the boys slept in the raw./ … Dictionary of American idioms

The Raw and the Cooked — is the title of a volume from Mythologiques I IV written by French anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss. The original French title was Le Cru et le cuit . * Mythologiques I IV (trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman ** Le Cru et le cuit , 1964 … Wikipedia

The Rumble in the Jungle — was a boxing match pitting then world Heavyweight champion George Foreman against former world champion and challenger Muhammad Ali that took place on October 30, 1974, in the Mai 20 Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the… … Wikipedia

Environmental movement in the United States — In the United States today, the organized environmental movement is represented by a wide range of organizations sometimes called non governmental organizations or NGOs. These organizations exist on local, national, and international scales.… … Wikipedia

Piracy in the Caribbean — The great era of piracy in the Caribbean began in the 1560s and died out in the 1720s as the nation states of Western Europe with colonies in the Americas began to exert more state control over the waterways of the New World. The period during… … Wikipedia

Human rights in the United States — In 1776, Thomas Jefferson proposed a philosophy of human rights inherent to all people in the Declaration of Independence, asserting that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that… … Wikipedia

Fathers' rights movement in the UK — The fathers rights movement in the UK consists of a number of diverse pressure groups, ranging from charities (whose activities are regulated by the Charity Commission) and self help groups to civil disobedience activists, who started to obtain… … Wikipedia